I'd like to see support for the Twinhan budget cards..VP 1020, VP1022, VP 102C, etc (I have them all)

Regards,

Dan

I hope this is in right topic!

I have a Twinhan DTV Mini Cab (w/o CI) DVB-C card. The card is working to see tv channels, but if a want to scan for channels whit it, it don't find anything.To get this working i need to uncoment line 1360 in kernel-<version>/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c that reads

and then make new kernel.I have tried to do this in LinuxMCE the Ubuntu way, but i allways fail when it reboots the new kernel. To get it up and running again i need to reinstall LinuxMCE...

The question i have is:How do i compile kernel for LinuxMCE whit this "fix" and get it working?

Thanx/Mami

Hmmm... I would think that you just need to re-build the bt8xx module with the dst_type set to Cable and then modprobe the newly built bt8xx module. If it modprobe's ok the just edit /etc/modules and add a line for your new bt8xx module. Your new module will then get loaded on boot.

I have tried whit to modprobe the bt8xx module whit many dst_type, but nothing worked (a long time ago!).Then i started to search the net and find that answer, and it worked directly.Because else it think it has a CI onboard or something like that!!

The card is supported under the "experimental" section of DVB-S2 PCI cards. To get the card working with only S functionality for the time being do I just have to install the v4l dvb drivers without patching them etc.. as mentioned here -

03:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)Subsystem: KNC One Unknown device 0022Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21Memory at fdeff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]I also have a Technisat HD2 Cablestar HD2 reported to be working under Kubuntu 8.04 http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Te…t_CableStar_HD2I haven't managed to get it working with LMCE, but will have another go at it and report back.

Does anyone have a clue as to how to get my card registered by the system?

WARNING! If you are using LMCE7.10RC2 do not waste time trying the v4l-dvb/S2API driver. It will work as a driver, and you will be able to scan, but there is no support for S2API in the current Mythtv or VDR versions, and there is no patch for S2API in the versions LMCE is using.

In the same wiki you will find the Multiproto driver, and this uses the old API that works in LMCE. Multiproto driver

A driver using the obsolete multiproto API may be installed as follows.

I don't know about it...I only say that VDR is ok with S2API.I still don't have my future house (with autamation) and still don't use LMCE (don't have two network...)but why couldn't be add the S2API to the LMCE 7.10 's kernel ?from linuxtv :(what i have done in my current install)

How to build the v4l-dvb kernel modulesThe v4l-dvb tree is backwards compatable against recent vanilla kernels. Kernel version 2.6.10 or later is required to build the dvb modules, and version 2.6.12 or later is required to build support for hybrid devices.

Change into the v4l-dvb directory:cd v4l-dvb

Build the modules:make

Install the modules:make install

and then only change in the Makefile of vdrDVBDIR=/usr/linux/(which is using the dvb from installed kerneltoDVBDIR=/usr/linux/v4l-dvb(the new modules S2API)(if you put it there of course)

bye

« Last Edit: February 10, 2009, 02:42:58 pm by tityann »

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I don't know about it...I only say that VDR is ok with S2API.I still don't have my future house (with autamation) and still don't use LMCE (don't have two network...) but why couldn't be add the S2API to the LMCE 7.10 's kernel ?

How did you read that S2API can't be installed in 710?!?It CAN!And YES! The driver works!!!

The problem does not lie there.... It's in VDR and MythTV and in LMCE7.10, they are specialized versions. Figuring out how to set up a development environment and patch and build new versions of MythTV or VDR for LMCE, is not something I would recommend to a user wondering how to install a DVB Card.

VDR and MythTV does not support S2API in any stable version yet, and both the stable versions and the developer versions needs to be patched. Patching scare the shit out of any Windows user trying to use Linux for the first time and is something regular linux user don't find very simple.

S2API will probably make it into 8.10 (I'm just guessing). Posde has commented somewhere that the new VDR integration would be able to use whatever VDR version the user installs. If that's true it would make users able to install the latest developer versions with patches